An interesting google search find..

Interesting in tweaking your bband connection in Win XP?

http://www.tweakxp.com/article37124.aspx(tip: check out cablenut proggy, very nice freeware optimizing proggy)

Things you can do in Win XP to speed up hdd related functions:

http://www.tweakxp.com/article37043.aspx (note: this article includes info.related to the NTFS which you should use if you have XP)

Check out http://www.tweakvista.com/ if you've got Windows Vista. (note: nothing too great here on Vista. most of the good stuff is the tweakxp site)

Anyways,

I can't wait to get home and change some of my NTFS stuff and try to get my net connection parameters optimized. Sweet! :)